digitaltoast

We’ve been here before with Capita and Group 4 and all the others…

• Nov 2007: 25m people’s child benefit details, held on two discs
• Dec 2007: 7,685 Northern Ireland drivers’ details
• Jan 2008: 600,000 people’s details lost on Navy officer’s stolen laptop
• June 2008: Six laptops holding 20,000 patients’ details stolen from hospital
• July 2008: MoD reveals 658 laptops stolen in four years

And now yet more data has been lost – unencrypted – on a memory stick!

The memory stick contained un-encrypted details about 10,000 prolific offenders as well as names, dates of births and some release date of all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales – and 33,000 records from the police national computer.

Just stop outsourcing to crap, usually foreign companies! I mean – who doesn’t encrypt everything they put on a memory stick? Most sticks these days come with automatic encryption and decryption anyway.

The government has buggered up our childrens’ education, lost millions on an abandoned Ancestry project and now lost data – who had been sacked? Anyone? Take some responsibility, you shameless fools.

Oh, and interesting that PA Consulting don’t seem to have got round to mentioning any of this in their PA In the news website…

In one week – part one:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/27/cc_charge_tsunami/

A Kent tradesman who ill-advisedly decided to pay the London congestion charge online was buried by a 3,000-receipt tsunami for his trouble, the BBC reports.

TfL explaimed in a statement: “This is clearly an unacceptable error. Our service provider, Capita, have identified the fault and put in additional controls to ensure it does not happen in future.”

Part two:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7319293.stm

Documents containing payroll information relating to 182 NHS staff members have been have been found dumped in a street.

They contained information, including addresses, bank account and National Insurance details, from five trusts in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire.

Police were informed and collected the documents after they had been found in a street in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

The documents had been in the care of company Capita when they were lost.

Capita handles many major contracts for local government and public bodies. Does that make you feel all warm and fuzzy?!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7253989.stm

The failure to check DNA data from 4,000 serious crimes abroad for more than a year was “catastrophic”, Tory leader David Cameron has said.

Prime minister Gordon Brown confirmed that 11 people involved had gone on to commit offences in the UK, including assault and non-payment of fines.

And haven’t we seen citizenship tests before?!